They were glad for his sake, as much as for their own, that he was no longer President Grant, but again General Grant, a title purely reminiscent and complimentary, for he was no longer an officer of the army.

In the first place, that they knew nothing of the name or how they got it; and next, that the word Mandan in the Welsh language (it being purely a Welsh word) means red dye, of which further mention will be made.

"The Brown Act does exclude what it calls purely social occasions, but I think it's an insult to the intelligence of the public to ask them to believe that any presentation by a governor to a Legislature is purely social," Francke said.